Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

Sacrolyte · 18-12-2025 02:09AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124077701#Comment_124077701

careful what you wish for. Maybe kerry will be one to be “picked off”.

straight · 18-12-2025 08:34AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124078561#Comment_124078561

Same way as they picked off golden vale and newmarket. Cute kerry hoors.

ftm2023 · 18-12-2025 08:46AM

I just saw the Rockwell farm has been sold for €25m as a going concern. They’ve a massive herd of cattle, I’d be guessing they’re surely worth €2m…? Factor in they put up all new buildings not so long ago, surely cost €2m… the main block of the farm is all road frontage and it’s close to Cashel. Helps too that it’s the best land in Ireland and it’s a national trophy asset… and it had 2 billionaires bidding on it, one of which paid €30K/acre for an inferior yet similar size of a farm where the sale was agreed years ago…

My hunch is Rockwell Farm hasn’t been sold to the highest bidders. The guys who have bought it spun the priests some story about keeping the dairy farm going etc… they’re the former owners of the citywest hotel that tuned it into an IPAS centre and then sold it to the government for €149m & they’re into all that kind of thing…… I wouldn’t be shocked if in 5 years time the biggest block of the Rockwell Farm was sold to either Magnier or Regan for €25m and these guys would keep the 270 acre block and it would have cost them nothing… and God only knows what they may build on that 270 acres 😂

Best of luck to them all anyway. It’s a beautiful farm. As for the farm being sold, “anything that’s worth having is hard to hold onto”.

Danny healy ray · 18-12-2025 09:33AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124078749#Comment_124078749

it would be hard to spin the religious order any kind of story regarding money higest bidder or ff

RightTurnClyde · 18-12-2025 10:38AM

My opinion is that they bought it for the future owners. They'll do the dirty work, get rid of the cows, staff and break the sod. And the real owners will move in when the dust has settled and the lime light is off it.

When you see the efforts to get their hands on the other estate. They're not going to let this pass easily

Wildsurfer · 18-12-2025 11:28AM

Agree with above, after buying up all the best farms in Tipp and missing out on Barne, there's no way JM is letting the Jewel in the Tipp crown slip through his fingers

cosatron · 18-12-2025 12:05PM

its some spot. had a look on daft and can anyone tell me, what type of crush gate they have, in the market for a new crush gate, or any recommendation. the fastest way to get them in and out without much hardship.

Back4more · 18-12-2025 12:14PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124079149#Comment_124079149

Picked up nugent semi automatic for 450 and 3 inch gal pipe (70 euro)to hold it ,just got 2 holes drilled to hold it and the holes for the bars were on it.

It does what I need it for anyway.

The hardest part is digging the conco for the pipe holder.

whelan2 · 18-12-2025 01:14PM

Daughter was saying they were testing at a big farm and they spent more time.e trying to get the automatic crush gate to work properly. Opening itself in the middle of crush fulls and not closing right

ftm2023 · 18-12-2025 03:30PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124078924#Comment_124078924

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124079044#Comment_124079044

Agree 100% with you both…… literally no chance that these boyos have just decided to go from IPAS centres to dairy farming and keeping locals in jobs 😂

Often when I can’t fall asleep I’d look at farms for sale in the UK, I’d sometimes see all different terms about clawback clauses etc — basically it would mean if a farm is sold today in 2025, then sold again in 2030 that the previous owners would get a % of the uplift in value

The way the Rockwell Farm was put to tender… if I was a billionaire and wanted it, I’d be bidding not a penny less than €30m. JP McManus paid €30m for Adare Manor in 2015, which was similar acreage to the Rockwell Farm.

If I was John Magnier or Maurice Regan I’d of been buying Rockwell Farm with an eye on the school campus to get my hands on that too eventually and to turn it into a hotel like Adare Manor.

My guess is the school itself will eventually get sold too — basically anyone who went to Rockwell up until 1990 can say that the priests did x, y or z to them and the school is in no position to say otherwise and will just have to keep writing cheques. The sale of the farm isn’t going to cover half the money that’ll need to be paid out. The priests are all dead, it’s going to be an absolute free for all with the claims.

I went to school there in much more recent years and loved it but hypothetically speaking like — there was times I was 1 on 1 with a couple of the priests as were all the other boarders, if someone made an accusation the school would have nothing better to do than pay up.

Castlekeeper · 19-12-2025 05:30PM

Does anyone know where to get the white silicon type hand scraper rubber blades? It's like a dream to me it was some crowd in Bandon? or Cork anyway?

I can't find them in the net unf

older by the day · 19-12-2025 06:50PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082873#Comment_124082873

https://www.oneilleng.ie/index.php/product/oneill-white-blade-rubber/

And if you're dreaming of hand scrapers, you may need a few nights out over the Christmas

Castlekeeper · 19-12-2025 07:07PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083073#Comment_124083073

😁

Thanks.

That's the way with me these times we've had a sick house all week, they're crawling into the bed to us several times a night. I've got it myself now. The eldest lad got the nasal flu vaccine at school and he's only laughing at us, of he doesn't get its a fair trial of it.

I've to spend 5 hours in a car to chaperone him to a teenage disco now. Dozing and coughing.

I could badly do with a few scoops myself.

older by the day · 19-12-2025 07:10PM

Half the house down here with the flu too, every one around either has that or a bug. Take care anyways

Siamsa Sessions · 19-12-2025 08:09PM

A few pints of Guinness and a hot one to finish yourself off. In a coma then for the night.

You might feel hungover tomorrow but when that fades tomorrow evening, the flu will be gone.

That’s what I used to tell myself anyway 😂

Jb1989 · 19-12-2025 08:11PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083218#Comment_124083218

So are you better dying from the flu or dying from the drink.

Siamsa Sessions · 19-12-2025 08:42PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083224#Comment_124083224

Hangovers fade quicker in my experience.

But thankfully I haven’t had either in a while. Never thought I’d say that about hangovers but it must be the cows influence on me.

GrasstoMilk · 19-12-2025 09:22PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083100#Comment_124083100

2 of us had that dose of a flu last week. Absolutely flattened me, never had a dose as bad. Was a tough 4 days with trying to keep the youngsters looked after before and after school along with looking after the cows

tractorporn · 19-12-2025 11:37PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124083389#Comment_124083389

I have that dose since last Friday and no sign of shifting it. I thought I had it bet Tuesday and had a busy day and was back to bed for the day Wednesday, worst dose I've gotten in a long time.

wrangler · 20-12-2025 06:52PM

I dont know why people don't get the flu vaccine, especially as a lot of farmers can't take to the bed anytime they like.

farmersfriend · 20-12-2025 07:02PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124082873#Comment_124082873

oneill engineering in ballinadee cork,

Castlekeeper · 21-12-2025 02:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124085135#Comment_124085135

Thanks 👍

jaymla627 · 22-12-2025 10:34AM

Dairy farmers are the sacraficial lamb, for Eu trade policies again it seems...

https://www.marketscreener.com/news/china-to-impose-provisional-duties-of-up-to-42-7-on-eu-dairy-products-ce7d50d2dd8bf426

blackdog1 · 22-12-2025 06:21PM

Anyone here with Jfc automatic calf feeders?. Tried putting ctc powder through mine recently and the pipe got blocked. thinking I might have the wrong type of powder. Anyone else experience this?

Smallglass · 22-12-2025 07:25PM

I have used Chloromed 150mg/g Oral Powder for Calves through milk powder,it dissolves well.

JeffKenna · 22-12-2025 09:17PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124088438#Comment_124088438

Affordable EVs, the cheapest clean alternative are blocked due to tariffs yet carbon tax is increased every year to petrol and diesel at the pump.

Make one wonder.

ftm2023 · 23-12-2025 09:54AM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124089980#Comment_124089980

This is one of the Chinese EV’s… it’s sold in China for the equivalent of €17,000 or 20,000 USD… an absolutely crazy spec - 279hp & 300 miles (500km) of range… I’d buy one myself if they were sold here for that money 😂

https://youtu.be/BUhrMfaTY5k?si=fbTrAn41do4nmprV

I’d a 2012 Peugeot 508 for the farm. Got it this time last year. Only 120,000 miles up on it. I didn’t even get a full year out of it, the biggest heap of şħįť I ever drove in my life. Got a Skoda Superb since, a 2014 one. 183K miles up on but it was only €3K and NCT’d etc… can’t be as bad as the Peugeot anyway whatever happens 😂

GrasstoMilk · 23-12-2025 08:43PM

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7aw5ZXRJMBfyrYik0OS3p9?si=hMqoAY_FQBe-iBEKRVI5yg

a very good podcast I thought. Gives a good insight to the American dairy industry and what they’re going to do with the down turn in milk price

daiymann 5 · 23-12-2025 08:56PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124092185#Comment_124092185

That lad loves publicity id say its the reason he expands hed want to look after his health and if i was him id concentrate on that more than mouthing about all the cows he owns that 3 way cross hes at is a disaster been there done that doesnt work it amazes me how such big operation can sustain practices that simply dont work.

straight · 23-12-2025 09:15PM

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/124092214#Comment_124092214

The banks want to see his accounts every month. Says it all really. Lost 12 million on robots i think he said. Not for me anyway.

Dairy Chitchat 4, an udder new thread.

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I have used Chloromed 150mg/g Oral Powder for Calves through milk powder,it dissolves well.